It has been a bad week around here.

Our beautiful Miss Piggy had one kitten and it seemed like there were more but she did not deliver any.

We could not get a Vet because they were all out with the farm animals.

Willona called every Vet for miles around.

She died. We are feeding the kitten and looking for a foster mom.

Then I got a tick I pulled it off but the spot got a big red bulge and I had to go to the Dr today and have the head removed and now on antibiotics.

I am so excited. We finally got our baby chicks 10 of them. They were about half the size they are now. They are in a dog crate in the living room now. I could not get a better photo because they are down on the floor and bending over is not my thing these days.

Mmmm this looks good. Willona is making dinner.

Periwinkle the little puppy that Liz had

is still very small.

She fits in a wine glass I don't think she weights more than a pound.

Her litter mates are about 4 pounds and they have all been adopted out.

Periwinkle is very spoiled she thinks she is very big and demands to by carried around.

When she is down we have to be very careful she darts here and there and could easily be stepped on.

I am not sure if we will be able to part with her.

We still have to hide her from the cats when we leave just in case they think she is a large mouse.

The kids were finally able to get a photo of Grumpy

Her name is Grumpy because she is. She is one of the kittens Jennifer had soon after she moved in with us. She is very pretty but very grumpy.

We are not sure why.

Hannah said it was because we called her Grumpy so we started calling her Bubbles that did not help so now she is called Grumpy Bubbles.

I think she wanted to be an only animal and we have all these other ones so she does not like any of them or us. Except maybe Hannah.

She is a great mouser.

Puppy being feed with a bottle.

Well since Willona is feeding her puppies and Liz does not like to sleep alone she will take care of the baby.Puppy getting his photo take in a cup.
That was fun but now please let me out.

This is what Gir looks like when he get a bath. I have had a very bad toothache and not been around much.

I sleep as much as I can hoping I won't have to spend money on a dentist.

I finally got a photo of Miss Piggy. I have not gotten one of Grumpy as she sees me with the camera and takes off and all I get is a blur and Sam is so black it is hard to get one of him. I made some little catnip bags for all the cats. Miss Piggy loves hers.

My computer has been down for a few days after doing many things to it I finally got it working again.

I have been making socks, dog sweaters and now I am fixing a sweater I made for Jonah last winter the sleeves were to long so I am shortening them and the neck just did not look right so I cut it of and am redoing it. The photo does not look so good (bad camera) but the sweater is a good looking sweater in real life.

Here is the biggest puppy.

What a cute face.

Things have not been going well around here lately. Yesterday Lizzy gave us a big scare she started shaking and sweating. At first we thought she was having a low blood sugar attack, as these small dogs need to eat to keep up their sugar levels and with the puppies we worried she was not eating enough. A trip to the Vet showed her calcium levels had dropped.
They gave her an IV and she came home an hour later looking very good and running around. But now the puppies need to be bottle feed so Liz does not have another episode. The little girl who has been using a bottle and nursing took to it good, she is so tiny, the others are doing better today. Willona feeds them every 2 hours with 5 puppies she says it takes 45 minutes to feed them all. She lets Liz in with them after to clean them up and cuddle with them. Liz gets very angry when she is separated from the puppies and they are feed and she barks the whole time.
During the day Willona gets the kids the help and it goes much faster but a night it is all up to her.
Baby Josiah had his shots yesterday also so he is fussy and wants Mom all the time. I am sure by the end of a week Willona will be very tired.
I will try to get photo's of the puppies soon.

I finally got some items posted for sale here. I only have the baby sweaters list now but will add more when I can. I have over 50 items to list.

Now that I got the sock thing down I have been making many socks. I finally learn to work with out the little stoppers on the ends of my needles. I have to get the pattern into my long term memory and we all need socks.

Lizzy had her babies on Jan 2 no white ones, we have 4 boys and 1 very little girl who is to weak to nurse so Willona is feeding her with a eye dropper.

Willona reminds me of my mom she does all she can until the animal either lives or dies. Mom many times had a box by her bed with some animal someone brought to her to save. Many of the animals lived some died and we buried them in the pet grave yard in the back.

I remember sitting in front of the oven, with Mom, with a bunch of baby rabbits that their mother rejected. The oven to keep them warm in their cotton beds and us to feed them and hold them to keep them alive.

I got a photo of

Cactus who is almost 15 and still plays like a kitten. He is my pal he thinks he has to take care of me and stays by me most of the time.

Larry, Gary, Love, Martin I call him Love. He is Isaac's cat and Isaac could not make up his mind what he wanted to call him. Love answers to all his names. We got him because Cactus was our only cat at the time and he could not keep up with the mice that we had in our new farm house that had stayed empty for several years and the mice thought it was theirs.

Jennifer who moved in with us after someone tossed her out. She is a very good mouser. With her we finally got our mouse population down.

Willona cleaned my carpet yesterday and I just love it. My room is one of the few rooms with carpet. It gets dirty fast because 5 out of the 7 cats hang out in here. And I am visited by several dogs a day. I am lucky they have to go a long way from the door to my room so I don't get a lot of mud. All the photo's of the cats I can find are of Gir, I will have to take some of

Cactus, Jennifer, Grumpy, Sam, Miss Piggy, and Love.

Gir I call him baby Gir, because we got him when he was a very little baby, with a hair cut and tail dyed, he loves the attention.

When Willona laid down for a nap Jazzy and Gir used her for a bed.

Lizzy

Lizzy is going to have her puppies any day now and the entire house is on edge waiting. All births are attended by all of us, taking turns to keep an eye on how things are going with Willona as Mid Wife. Lizzy was bread by a white Yorkie so we are hopping to get white puppies but you never know. You can see more here

It is still snowing. The news says we have not had a winter event like this since 1968 so are calling it a 40 year storm.

I84 the Oregon side and SR14 the Washington side to the Portland have been closed for days. The finally got a bit of SR14 open tonight. SR14 is a 2 lane highway.

Everyone but me went to drop of a dog and pick up another one Sunday morning.

Jazzy being one.

They went through Yakima WA and they had to spend the night near Randal WA.

I used to be a Janitor and had to work in the snow all winter long driving around at night to get the the different jobs. And clearing the sidewalks in the morning before people started walking on them. I am so glad I don't have to go out in it now.